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2007 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Towards Natural Gesture Synthesis: Evaluating Gesture Units in a Data-Driven Approach to Gesture Synthesis
Authors : Michael Kipp, Michael Neff, Kerstin H. Kipp, Irene Albrecht
Published in: Intelligent Virtual Agents
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Virtual humans still lack naturalness in their nonverbal behaviour. We present a data-driven solution that moves towards a more natural synthesis of hand and arm gestures by recreating gestural behaviour in the style of a human performer. Our algorithm exploits the concept of gesture units to make the produced gestures a continuous flow of movement. We empirically validated the use of gesture units in the generation and show that it causes the virtual human to be perceived as more natural.